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Photo Oops: History's Worst Political Photo Ops

On July 26, 2004, Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry donned a protective “bunny suit” and was photographed crawling through a hatch on the space shuttle Discovery at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Though bunny suits are required for anyone who comes close to Discovery, the images of Kerry drew comparisons to the Dukakis tank incident.